This page is for members of the EGUSD Online Teaching and Learning Community. It is a source of information specific to the Supplemental Pilot Project. It also contains professional learning information such as research articles, web links, online learning blogs, etc. It is intended to be a resource and tool to expand individual and collective online learning expertise in the areas of educational technologies, curriculum development, online teaching practices, student academic progress monitoring, and program evaluation.
We are dedicated to exploring technology as a means to expand our delivery and as such expand our flexibility of service to the students of the Elk Grove Unified School District. The pace of technological advancements and change is rapid and our goal is:
•To remain current of available instructional technologies
•Plan flexibly and encourage experimentation by individuals and teams
•Expand individual and collective knowledge and expertise.
We are committed to using technology to expand our services to and for students, creating increasingly flexible teaching/learning options.
Our goal is to develop standardized capabilities for online educators.This will occur through their participation in professional learning to create web-based lessons and/or to teach content units or courses online. In order to reach this level of professional practice we will:
• Develop online/virtual learning communities for collaboration, mentoring, and support.
•Leverage the use of appropriate technologies for delivery of professional development specifically related to online learning.
•Provide various levels of ongoing professional development and support to assist teachers in meeting the International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) National Standards for Quality Online Teaching and in learning to teach content units and courses online to students in a virtual classroom.
•Provide ongoing professional development and support to assist teachers and other appropriate individuals in offering ongoing support to local students participating in online courses and virtual classrooms.
•Provide various levels of ongoing professional development and support to assist teachers and other appropriate staff in creating online courses that meet the iNACOL National Standards of Quality for Online Courses.
•Provide examples of best practices using online learning and blended online/traditional classroom teaching and learning practices.
EGUSD Online Learning (High School) Supplemental Program (Pilot)
The documents below provide essential information specific to the Online Learning Supplemental Program.
Program Evaluation - Details of how all aspects of the pilot program will be evaluated are included in this attachment. A formative, summative and confirmative, comprehensive evaluation will be conducted to assess the effectiveness of the program outcomes.
•OLL Program Evaluation Map.doc
Specific School Site Information - (courses offered, teachers, labs, etc) including Adult Education (EGACE)
•OLL Site Specific Data1.doc
Frequently Asked Questions/Answers - This document is an archive of questions/answers specific to the project
•OLL FAQ Table.doc
Apex Learning Workstation Configuration Guide - This document summarizes the required and supported workstation configurations to access Apex Learning Online Courses. Many of these configurations can be checked automatically using the Apex Learning Systems Check-Up (apexlearning.com/SystemCheckOp?)
•Scott McCleod's blog - Ruminations on technology, leadership and the future of our schools
◦ An excellent instructional technology blog with connections to a variety of links and resources.
■Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Education Administration program at Iowa State University. He also is the Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation's only center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National School Boards Association. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at dangerouslyirrelevant.org.
Clicking on the icon above will take you to the iNACOL website (research link). It contains valuable and current information on varied online learning topics (see the list of topics below)
•Reports and Publications
•Promising Practices in Online Learning
•National Standards
•Research
•Presentations
•Links
•Online Learning Clearinghouse
•Continuity of Learning
•Online Bookstore
http://www.kpk12.com/- A website containing state/national online learning trends and practices.
Examples of the information provided: Online learning at the K-12 level has grown so much in recent years that the main issue in most states is no longer whether or not online learning is occurring, but rather how it is being implemented. Most states (45 as of September 2009) have significant supplemental online learning programs, or significant full-time programs, or both. Of the states that do not have either of these options, several have begun planning for online learning development. In addition to the spread of online learning programs to most states across the country, the majority of existing online programs show considerable growth in the number of students they are serving.
•This course provides practical strategies and pedagogical advice for instructors teaching in an online environment. The course includes advice about: preparing to teach in an online environment, managing the teaching of a course, and addressing larger issues surrounding online teaching (e.g. workload, intellectual property, etc.) The course includes interviews from a number of teachers who have taught in an online environment. This course is based on a training session offered to faculty who teach at The World Campus at Penn State University.
Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning: A Review of State-Level Policy and Practice, 2009 is the latest in a series of annual reports that began in 2004 that examine the status of K-12 online education across the country, providing a research-based overview of the latest policies, practices and trends affecting online learning programs across all 50 states.
We are dedicated to exploring technology as a means to expand our delivery and as such expand our flexibility of service to the students of the Elk Grove Unified School District. The pace of technological advancements and change is rapid and our goal is:
•To remain current of available instructional technologies
•Plan flexibly and encourage experimentation by individuals and teams
•Expand individual and collective knowledge and expertise.
We are committed to using technology to expand our services to and for students, creating increasingly flexible teaching/learning options.
Our goal is to develop standardized capabilities for online educators.This will occur through their participation in professional learning to create web-based lessons and/or to teach content units or courses online. In order to reach this level of professional practice we will:
• Develop online/virtual learning communities for collaboration, mentoring, and support.
•Leverage the use of appropriate technologies for delivery of professional development specifically related to online learning.
•Provide various levels of ongoing professional development and support to assist teachers in meeting the International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) National Standards for Quality Online Teaching and in learning to teach content units and courses online to students in a virtual classroom.
•Provide ongoing professional development and support to assist teachers and other appropriate individuals in offering ongoing support to local students participating in online courses and virtual classrooms.
•Provide various levels of ongoing professional development and support to assist teachers and other appropriate staff in creating online courses that meet the iNACOL National Standards of Quality for Online Courses.
•Provide examples of best practices using online learning and blended online/traditional classroom teaching and learning practices.
EGUSD Online Learning (High School) Supplemental Program (Pilot)
The documents below provide essential information specific to the Online Learning Supplemental Program.
Program Evaluation - Details of how all aspects of the pilot program will be evaluated are included in this attachment. A formative, summative and confirmative, comprehensive evaluation will be conducted to assess the effectiveness of the program outcomes.
•OLL Program Evaluation Map.doc
Specific School Site Information - (courses offered, teachers, labs, etc) including Adult Education (EGACE)
•OLL Site Specific Data1.doc
Frequently Asked Questions/Answers - This document is an archive of questions/answers specific to the project
•OLL FAQ Table.doc
Apex Learning Workstation Configuration Guide - This document summarizes the required and supported workstation configurations to access Apex Learning Online Courses. Many of these configurations can be checked automatically using the Apex Learning Systems Check-Up (apexlearning.com/SystemCheckOp?)
•Apex Learning - Workstation Configuration Guide.pdf
Online Learning Teacher Roles and Responsibilities
•OLL Teacher Roles and Responsibilities.pdf
APEX Training Attrendance Document - This will enable the EGUSD OLL Community know who is involved with the pilot program
•APEX_Training Attendance.docx
APEX Recommended Course Equivilences - Aligns APEX courses with EGUSD Courses for credit/transcript purposes
•APEX_Recommended Course Equivalencies.doc
APEX Editing Coaches provides direction on how to add/delete coaches to student profiles
•APEX Editing Coaches.doc
APEX Couses SISWEB Setup - provides essential directions and guidelines for setting up APEX courses/sections/houses in SISWEB
•APEX Courses SISWEB Setup.doc
EGUSD Online Learning Teacher Resources
•Online Learning Opening Activity.doc
◦Thank you Sue Hubbard - Franklin High School
Online Learning Pilot Project Newsletter - Up to date information for teachers and administrators
•Online+Newsletter+2.5.10.pdf
Recent Online Learning Articles:
• http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/education/09textbook.html
•Virtual Schools and 21st Century Skills.pdf
•Making+Virtual+Education+a+Reality.pdf
Online Learning Resources:
http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/
•Scott McCleod's blog - Ruminations on technology, leadership and the future of our schools
◦ An excellent instructional technology blog with connections to a variety of links and resources.
■Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Education Administration program at Iowa State University. He also is the Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation's only center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National School Boards Association. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at dangerouslyirrelevant.org.
Clicking on the icon above will take you to the iNACOL website (research link). It contains valuable and current information on varied online learning topics (see the list of topics below)
•Reports and Publications
•Promising Practices in Online Learning
•National Standards
•Research
•Presentations
•Links
•Online Learning Clearinghouse
•Continuity of Learning
•Online Bookstore
http://www.kpk12.com/- A website containing state/national online learning trends and practices.
Examples of the information provided: Online learning at the K-12 level has grown so much in recent years that the main issue in most states is no longer whether or not online learning is occurring, but rather how it is being implemented. Most states (45 as of September 2009) have significant supplemental online learning programs, or significant full-time programs, or both. Of the states that do not have either of these options, several have begun planning for online learning development. In addition to the spread of online learning programs to most states across the country, the majority of existing online programs show considerable growth in the number of students they are serving.
http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/ecoach/tenbest.html
•Teaching Online for the First Time -- The Quick Guide
http://cnx.org/content/col10453/latest/
•This course provides practical strategies and pedagogical advice for instructors teaching in an online environment. The course includes advice about: preparing to teach in an online environment, managing the teaching of a course, and addressing larger issues surrounding online teaching (e.g. workload, intellectual property, etc.) The course includes interviews from a number of teachers who have taught in an online environment. This course is based on a training session offered to faculty who teach at The World Campus at Penn State University.
Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning: A Review of State-Level Policy and Practice, 2009 is the latest in a series of annual reports that began in 2004 that examine the status of K-12 online education across the country, providing a research-based overview of the latest policies, practices and trends affecting online learning programs across all 50 states.
•KeepingPace09-fullreport.pdf
•KeepingPace09-natlsnpsht.pdf
Links to Online Learning and Virtual Schools are available below